Honoo no Alpen Rose: Difference between revisions

[[File:honoo_no_alpen_rose_judy_randy_1030_4681.jpg|frame]]

 

 

The main characters are two teenagers named Lundi and Jeudi. Lundi Cortot is a boy who lives in Switzerland with his aunt and uncle in 1932, few years before [[World War Two]]; in these days, he and his family finds a little girl in a dandelion plain, and take they her in alongside her cockatoo Printemps. Since she can't remember anything about her past, they rename her Jeudi and raise her for a while until she's taken in by a nearby store (manga) or a nursery school (anime).

Fast forward to 1939, few after the Austrian Anschluss and a little before Switzerland declares its neutrality. Lundi and Jeudi are already teenagers, but Jeudi is still amnesiac; her only clue about her identity is a song that repeats itself in her memories, whose name is apparently ''Alpen Rose''. And then, a strange man named Count Germont appears and attempts to kidnap Jeudi! When she refuses to become his mistress and is pretty much locked in the castle as a maid, Lundi rescues her and they run away from home, setting out in a journey to find the answers to all of their questions, as well as falling in love in the process...

 

 

* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: Jeudi, to the Count

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Liesl and Johan

* [[Bridal Carry]]: In Berne, Jeudi is using new shoes. They hurt her feet, so Lundi carries her like this.

* [[Cain and Abel]]: {{spoiler|Jean Jacques/Tarantula and Lundi.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The song ''Alpine Rose''. {{spoiler|It's one of Jeudi's few memories of her past life.}}

** Even more: {{spoiler|it's a song to honor [[La Résistance]], since both Leonhardt's and Jeudi's parents were supporters of it and went against [[Those Wacky Nazis]].}} And also {{spoiler|it allows Jeudi to tell her mother Helene that she's her child, via singing it when she's about to be taken away from the Durant mansion.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Bittersweet Ending]]: The recopilatory movies finish right after Lundi and Jeudi finally get free from the Count... and right as [[World War Two]] finally takes off.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|The hitman Tarantula almost shoots the Count to death when he reveals his plans of building his ideal nation and asks him to kill General Guisan.}}

* [[Famous Last Words]]:

** {{spoiler|Hans}}: "I'm sorry, {{spoiler|Clara}}... so sorry I can't go back home..."

** {{spoiler|Friederich}}: " {{spoiler|Alicia}}, my sweet {{spoiler|Alicia}}... My time has come... please forgive me..."

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Jeudi {{spoiler|and both of her parents.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Hans. Having repented after selling Lundi and Jeudi out, he tried to prevent the Count from getting to them ''and'' give them some info that he had just picked up... only to get shot [[In the Back]] by the Count himself.}}

* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Jeudi is taken away to become a nurse in the anime. In the manga she was a store worker, and later forced into maid-hood by the Count.

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: The Count wants to do this to Jeudi

** {{spoiler|[[Broken Messiah]]: Jeudi is so angry at the Count crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] that she breaks down in anger. Lundi has to calm her down.}}

* [[The Ojou]]: Liesl, who's a little childish and selfish but has a good heart underneath.

* [[No Swastikas]]: Averted. An example is the cover for the DVD, [http://bakabt.me/161499-honoo-no-alpen-rose-h264-arr.html as seen here].

** [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/alpine_rose/v01/c009/30.html And here as well]. {{spoiler|Which keeps triggering Jeudi's memories.}} It's never referred to as such, but as "the Black Cross".

* [[Proper Lady]]: Francoise, the Count's wife. She still goes "[[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]" and helps Jeudi and Lundi to escape the castle.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Invoked when {{spoiler|Leon uses his own "Nazi concert" to get away from [[Those Wacky Nazis]] with Jeudi AND give them the musical finger via inserting ''an anti-Nazi song'' in his "Austrian symphony".}} [[The Sound of Music|The Von Trapp family would be proud of you, son.]]

* [[Shoujo]]

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Hans and Clara.

* [[Smug Snake]]: The Count, as well as arms dealer Tranchart {{spoiler|who is pressuring the Durants aka Jeudi's maternal family into supporting him.}}

* [[Sole Survivor]]: Jeudi and Printemps. {{spoiler|Subverted, they weren't alone in the end.}}

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: As things get worse and worse, it seems the Universe itself is conspiring to give Lundi and Jeudi trouble. Specially when {{spoiler|Lundi disappears when the train he and Jeudi have boarded to reach Austria is caught in a bomb attack, and Jeudi has to go to Austria alone.}}

** Not to mention, {{spoiler|Jeudi's parents Friederich and Helene. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/alpine_rose/v02/c015/26.html Friederich explains to Leon and Jeundi] that he was already disliked by the Durant family by the time they got married, and after she was wounded in their escape they too her back in but kept them separated.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]: Robert the [[Intrepid Reporter]] has to reveal to Liesl and Johann that [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/alpine_rose/v01/c009/17.html "Julian" is Jeudi].}} And later, {{spoiler|Jeudi has to [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/alpine_rose/v01/c010/30.html reveal herself as a girl to Leon].}}

* [[Team Pet]]: Printemps, Jeudi's cockatoo

* [[Tsundere]]: Leonhardt Aschenbach is a male Type A.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: They're pretty much in movement by the time the story begins.

* {{spoiler|[[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Leon, to Jeudi. Or better said, to Alicia - that is Jeudi's real name.}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: {{spoiler|Martha slaps and berates Hans for ratting out Lundi and Jeudi to get money for Clara's medicine.}}

* [[Yodel Land]]: Both Switzerland AND Liechtenstein are inclued in this.

 

[[Category:Manga]]

[[Category:Shoujo Demographic]]